This paper deals with closed-loop pole-placement in discrete, linear s
ystems under single and multirate sampling. The technique is extendabl
e to hybrid systems, i.e. those involving both continuous and discrete
substates. The sampling rates for the state, input and output compone
nts are used as a controller design technique to achieve closed-loop p
ole-placement since the controller, which is also discrete or hybrid i
n the general case, can be periodically reparameterized, the main usef
ul effect of which being the availability of multiple design gains who
se number and value are under the designer's choice. The key design fa
ctor in the multirate sampling design is that once the closed-loop run
ning sampling period (i.e. that defining the closed-loop dynamics and
thus the controller reparametrization periodicity) has been chosen, on
e can use freedom in the choice of smaller sampling periods for the va
rious plant input and output components as well as for those of the co
ntroller state. All these sampling periods are chosen as submultiples
of the closed-loop running sampling period. Copyright (C) 1996 publish
ed by Elsevier Science Ltd